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Looks like he already did. Listed on chicagobears.com as a guard.

I would think so since Fukudome has already been given the day off.

I didn't say he would get more then 300 yards as a rookie, I said it wouldn't surprise me if he is productive like Eddie Royal as a rookie. Besides, if his hands are s reliable as people say he is, he'll quickly become a favorite with Cutler and the coaching staff. If he doesn't get 300 yards he's not productive like Eddie Royal who caught 90 balls for 1000+. I guess I don't understand your point. I think he's differentiating between what he thinks is likely to happen, and what he wouldn't be surprised of if it happened. Oh ok. Still, he should be very surprised if that does happen, because that is an extreme long-shot for a 5th round rookie WR, who's probably going to be at best 4th or 5th on the WR depth chart and behind 3 options at other positions in the passing game.

I didn't say he would get more then 300 yards as a rookie, I said it wouldn't surprise me if he is productive like Eddie Royal as a rookie. Besides, if his hands are s reliable as people say he is, he'll quickly become a favorite with Cutler and the coaching staff. If he doesn't get 300 yards he's not productive like Eddie Royal who caught 90 balls for 1000+. I guess I don't understand your point.

Mccoy and Suh are probably top 5.

Which is why I'm not so sure that Snead won't stay for his senior year. He'd be in amongst a handful of good QB's if he came out next year. However, if he continues to stay hot for this season and his senior season, then he'd probably be the sure-fire no.1 pick in 2011. Yeah, but look at Bradford. I'm convinced he went back to school because he was going to be the #1 pick and didn't want to play for Detroit. If Snead comes out, he lets Bradford go #1 and has a better chance of a decent team moving up to get him ala NY Jets w/ Sanchez. It gives him the ability to NOT go to a team he doesn't want and not look like an a-hole like Elway and Eli Manning.

that's why i laugh at teams that traded a first or second round pick in next year's draft for a worse pick in this year's draft. The only thing really missing from next years draft is a stud RB so far. Murray could be one but seems fragile, and McKnight seems better suited for a 2 RB system. I was also reading that next season is also an uncapped season, how will that make an impact on draft day. Yeah, and both Murray and McKnight will be first rounders. CJ Spiller is a potential stud if he has a big year and runs a sub 4.4, ala Chris Johnson.

Yes, Bernard Pollard is a hero in my book!

I didn't say Knox would be on the field as much as Royal was last yr, I said he could be this yr's Royal for Cutler on the Bears. I think if Knox can gain the confidence of Lovie Smith and Jay Cutler, he'll be on the field period. And if his hands are as reliable as his scouting report says they are, I would find it hard for the Bears to keep him off the field. Besides Denver NEEDED something out of Royal---despite not expecting much at the beginning of the season---to compliment Marshall. Outside of Marshall and Royal, Stockley was the only other WR(excluding TE) who was mildly productive. The Bears won't have to count on Knox as much as Denver needed to count on Royal, but it would surprise me if Knox has a very solid 550-800 yrds season as a rookie. It would to me. Like you said, Royal didn't have much to compete with. Knox is not going to beat out Hester, obviously. He probably isn't going to beat out Bennett for PT, with his familiarity w/ Cutler. He probably isn't going to beat out Iglesias who was drafted higher. And he still has to compete with them, Olsen, Clark, Forte, and possibly Rashied Davis for catches. It's a mistake to expect more than 300 yards from Knox in 2009. Those projections make much more sense for Iglesias.

Garnett and Bosh are pretty skinny. Nobody complains about them trying to guard stronger players. The problem is they aren't consistent scorers. Nobody cares if you are a bad interior defender if you can make the other guy work on defense too.

This draft will be freaking loaded.

I'm not seeing the officiating favoring Boston. There were calls that were wrong on both ends. Rose got clobbered on the putback attempt by Perkins. About 4 of Allen's fouls were cheap calls. Rose got a call when he put his shoulder into Rondo because he didn't have anywhere to go. Gordon, Salmons, and Pierce got hit constantly and got no calls. The Bulls just blew the game. 10pt 4th quarter lead and they blew it in a hurry. That's on the coaching, the players, everything.

Well, can't get much more out of 9 innings from 2 starters than the 39.5 I got from Sanchez and Hamels. Of course, now that Hamels has decided to get hurt in every start and Sanchez gets skipped every other time in the rotation...that's about the best I can hope for. Oh and King Felix by himself almost matched that performance in 1 start last night.

Disappointing game. Rose was really bad down the stretch. He looked like he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. Del Negro didn't do a good job coaching. Had 10.5 to win it in regulation and refused to pick and roll. Allowed the team to go one-on-one, and settled for a jump shot from somebody other than Gordon. I still would put Hinrich on Pierce and let Salmons guard House. Hinrich is simply better on the ball, size disadvantage or not.

I compared Johnny Knox combine numbers to that of one Eddie Royal and guess what...........it is scary have similar Johnny Knox and Royal really are. I think there's a chance that Johnny Knox can be to Cutler in Chicago as Royals was to Cutler in Denver. That's actually exactly along the lines of what I was thinking. Yep. It really is scary how similar of players Knox and Royal truly are. I don't think they are as similar as you think. They are close to the same size (Knox 6', 185; Royal 5'10", 185). But Royal is much, much stronger. Royal did 24 reps of 225lbs. In addition to strength, Royal seems to be shifter and better with the ball in his hands than Knox, who is more of a straight-line speed WR. This is evidenced by Royal being one of the best return men in the country and Knox being just passable as a returner at a DII school. Strangely, the questions Royal had about route running and his hands aren't there with Knox. Also, Royal caught 90 passes as a rookie as the #2 WR on a team that threw the ball 620 times. It's pretty outlandish to think Knox will come close to getting on the field as much as Royal and beat out all the competition for balls to be thrown his way.

Good thing is that if Gordon goes, he shouldn't be limited to a small amount of minutes. With a muscle injury, it's better to keep active so it doesn't go cold on him and he's not able to get loose again. I would like to see Hinrich on Rondo, but then you have either Gordon on Pierce in the 3-guard set or Rose on Allen if Gordon is on the bench. I don't want Rose chasing Allen around screens all night. Plus, Pierce going off tend to spark the Celtics. I'd rather put as much energy in stopping Pierce as possible and make lesser players beat the Bulls.

He's available. And he was suspended the last 3 games of last year, so I'm not sure that he would be suspended at all this year. If so, it wouldn't be more than 1-2 games.

You know who Jarron Gilbert reminds me of? Eric Swann. Remember him? A little bigger than Gilbert, but both have tremendous size and came out of small schools (very small in Swann's case) with amazing athletic ability. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SwanEr00.htm Swann had a pretty decent career. 2-time probowler. 3 seasons with over 7 sacks from the DT position. According to one website, Gilbert was the 58th best player, got him at 60. Iglesias was the 70th best, got him at 99. Moore was 61st, got him at 119.

Who did they get? I didn't want a FB until the 6th round at earliest. And that was assuming they filled all their other needs, which they did other than OL.

Best 3 drafts 1. Eagles- biggest needs were WR, RB, TE, and CB. Got the 2nd best WR, 3rd best RB (IMO, better than Beanie), and maybe the 3rd/4th best TE. Harris at CB will work to get on the field. He was a 4-year starter at VT. Tupou and Gibson are sleepers who could be a good 3rd T and 3rd WR respectively. 2. Bengals- maybe got 6 starters with their first 6 picks, including the punter. Reason they are not #1 is because Smith and Johnson have bust potential due to attitude and lack of consistent effort. And they didn't do much at the back end of the draft. 3. Giants- consistently one of the best drafting teams over the last 3 years. Nicks should start right away. Barden gives them another big WR. Beckum gives them a versatile backup at TE. Bomar, Brown, and Beatty were all steals and give them some solid depth. Worst 3 drafts 1. Broncos- biggest need was DL, so they addressed it by picking 0 DL-men. Jay Cutler for Robert Ayres, Alfonso Smith, and Richard Quinn. Ayres is a good pick who I wanted at 18 for the Bears, but Quinn is the 3rd TE behind 2 pretty decent ones and they traded the Bears 3rd for him. Smith is OK, but they traded next year's #1 for him. Granted it wasn't the Bears pick they traded, but essentially the Cutler trade is done. 2. Cowboys- 3 OLBs in first 4 picks? Wasn't a huge need to begin with. Picked a K when they have one of the better Ks in the league. Only 1 true steal in Mickens in the 7th. Didn't get a WR to develop to replace TO. Would have been better trading some of those picks to get a couple really good players with so few needs. 3. Chargers- English was a reach at 16. They could have traded back and possibly picked up 2nd rounder and still picked English, Brown, Barwin, or Sintim...especially since the Bucs were looking to go ahead of Denver to get Freeman. Waited too long for a RB and to fill DL. Then got more of a NT than a 3-4 DE that they need. Green Bay, Chicago, Atlanta, and Arizona also had pretty good drafts and would be the next 4. I didn't think NE did anything spectacular. I didn't think the Jets draft was bad. It was limited, but not bad at all. And I don't the Raiders draft was horrible. It was near the bottom, but not as bad as many think.

Indeed, and I wouldnt be surprised if Louid beats out Davis for the 3rd tight end. A converted RT back to TE at 300 lbs and runs a 4.6. Wow. Clark is getting old, I wouldn't be surprised if he's the casualty at that position. But yeah, Hunter is done. Clark better not be the casualty. He's getting old, but he can still play. Hillenmeyer on the other hand....

If you would have told me the Bears would get Gilbert, Iglesias, Freeman, and Moore, I would have assumed that the Bears traded down and picked up 3 picks between 50 and 99. All are guys I thought would go in that range, except for Moore who I'd figured would go by 49. I think the Bears got 4 of the top 100 players in the draft. Which is great considering they got none of the top 40.

Freeman! Love Marcus Freeman. I would have taken him in the 4th. Another steal, IMO. Still don't understand ignoring OL consistently every damn year, though.

Great pick by the Eagles.

Still got a bad feeling that JA thinks he did enough to the line thru free agency and will go elsewhere. But you still have 3 projected starters well over 30.